RaveThe Los Angeles Review of Books...her book perfectly captures the idiosyncrasies of the Gulf Coast ... What slowly emerges throughout the course of Gerard’s searching is a clear-eyed dismantling of the American dream: the idea that we are the individual architects of our fates, each with the power to will for ourselves the lives we want, the abundance we desire — wealth we trust will lead to true happiness ... Gerard has a keen ear for absurdist logic, the contortions of language through which the dreamer rebuffs reality. Sunshine State is full of such dreamers.